Package of Emergency Economic Measures (2nd package)

May 27, 2020

※ This is an overview of MEXT’s support, including non-budgetary

items, centering on the government’s second supplementary

budget proposal approved by the Cabinet on May 27.

MEXT is supporting with a wide and varied menu of financial support students finding it difficult to continue their studies dueto a decrease in income from part-time jobs and a sudden change in their family's household finances resulting from theCOVID-19 pandemic so that they can continue to attend school and not be forced to abandon their studies. In addition,persons having difficulty repaying loan-type scholarships will have their debt repayment burden eased.

Support to students facing financial difficulties（※Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget and reserve funds.)

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Support to students facing financial hardshipsMEXT has newly established a Student Support Emergency Payment program to enable students facing financial hardships due to a loss or decrease of part-time job income to continue their studies. (https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/koutou/hutankeigen/mext_00686.html)The decision on the amount of support to supplement payments under the New Learning Support System for Higher Education and loan-type scholarships provided by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) for students whose family finances have sharply changed due to the impact of COVID-10 will be made based on an estimation of the family's projected income.

JASSO will provide repayment assistance, including the postponement of repayment and reduction of the monthly installment, to those facing difficulties repaying scholarship loans.

MEXT will request that economic organizations and companies provide sufficient information to students in the process of seeking employment and not to cancel informal agreements to hire graduating students, and will ask universities and other institutions to provide support to students.

MEXT will provide support through tuition exemptions or reductions to students of families whose household finances have greatly changed and through High School Supplemental Scholarship Fund. Particularly for students of private high schools bearing a heavy tuition burden, MEXT will enhance support for tuition exemption or reductions.

MEXT will provide emergency support to all universities, colleges of technology, and professional training colleges that independently reduce or exempt tuition payments so that students in need whose family finances have been disrupted by the impact of COVID-19 will not have to abandon their studies due to financial reasons. At that time, MEXT will raise the subsidy rate for subsidies for current expenditures to private universities by two-thirds.

MEXT will request all universities to give flexible handling and other careful consideration to students in financial difficulty making first-year payments of enrollment and other fees and tuition payments by providing a grace period for these initial payments, etc., and to respond flexibly and carefully to students who cannot make tuition payments by payment deadlines due to unavoidable circumstances so that they will not be put at a disadvantage.

MEXT will support overseas study by providing travel support funds to Japanese students temporarily returning to Japan in accordance with a government request to return to Japan due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emergency support for students at universities, colleges of technology, and professional training colleges

Travel support to Japanese students temporarily returning to Japan from study abroad

※ For local initiatives or local cost-bearing of partial national subsidy projects, possibility of utilization of government's special regional revitalization grants for combatting COVID-19.https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/tiiki/rinjikoufukin/index.html

Based on the reality that society as a whole will have to live with COVID-19 for a long period, MEXT is providing necessaryhuman and material support so that schools will be able to ensure that children's healthy learning is compatible withcountermeasures against COVID-19 and that they can provide the maximum level of learning that only schools can provide.

Ensuring children’s learning

【Primary and secondary education】Emergency bolstering of education system

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（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

（Preparation of personnel, material systems）Large-scale placement of additional teachers, instructors, etc. (preparation of personnel system), financial support to all elementary schools and junior

and senior high schools for school reopening (preparation of material system).

Staggered classes (dividing into 2, etc.)

Additional teachers

School support

staff

Instructors

Other measures

PersonnelM

aterial

• MEXT “School/children Supporter Bank”

• Making education flexible• Easing of qualification requirements

for instructors, use of temporary/special licenses

Employ retired teachers, cram school instructors, university students, NPO education staff, community residents

Securing HR

Financial support for expenses for promptly and flexibly implementing necessary measures for ensuring learning, countering COVID-19, decided by school principal

Anti-COVID-19

Ensuring learning

• Disinfectants• Non-contact thermometers• Ventilation equipment • Heat illness prevention for lunch cooks

Etc.• Learning materials• Use of equipment in empty classrooms• Telephone receivers (increase) Etc.

※ Depending on the regional COVID-19 situation, for schools with children who need medical care, consultation on system for accepting a school doctor, etc., suitable placement of nurse (utilization of existing budget).

Depending on the COVID-19 situation in the region, make smaller groups of final-year students, and ensure enough class time is being allocated for them.

Depending on the COVID-19 situation in the region, assign 1 staff member to schools with no schoolsupport staff in order to support the preparation of lessons, contact with parents, admin tasks related to health management, etc. (assignment to all elementary and junior high schools in conjunction with initial budget [excluding small schools with 5 classes or less]).

Depending on the COVID-19 situation in the region, assign additional instructors to assist classroom teachers and ensure detailed instruction.

2-3 per school 1-2 per school

SC, SSW, etc.※

Depending on the situation and necessity in each school, additional assignment of school counselors (SC) and school social workers (SSW)to provide mental care to students. (utilization of existing budget).

Elementary, junior HSSmall Medium Large

1 million yen

1.5 million yen

2 million yen

3 million yen

HSSpecial needs

Support estimates*

※ Currently only estimates; not decided yet.

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Primary and secondary education—Preparing environment for home study using computer terminals

By accelerating the integrated preparation of hardware, software, and human resources under the GIGA School Concept, which will realize the preparation of ICT environments even in homes and the "1 computer terminal per 1 student" goal, MEXT will promptly prepare an environment ensuring that all children can learn through the use of ICT even during emergency periods of temporary school closures due to natural disasters, pandemics, etc.

In regards to the provision of terminals, LTE communications devices (mobile routers), equipment for distance learning, etc. through the GIGA School Concept, MEXT will:

・ Take measures to enable local governments to start retrofitting preparations without waiting for decisions on supplementary budget payments

・ Work with equipment suppliers after ascertaining nationwide demand,・Directly advise through experts local governments for moving forward with prompt procurement.

In addition. In August, while utilizing the special regional revitalization grants, MEXT will realize its target of preparing an environment enabling all children to learn at home through online instruction utilizing ICT in the priority regions (13 prefectures) designated as "special alert prefectures.“

Primary and secondary education—Anti-COVID-19 measures at schoolsMEXT has compiled and is providing an infection control manuals and guidelines for schools under the "new lifestyle" for combatting COVID-19. https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/coronavirus/mext_00029.html

MEXT is providing support to kindergartens for expenses incurred for preventing the spread of COVID-19, such as purchases of masks, disinfectants, etc.

MEXT is supporting school establishers for the purchase and distribution of health and hygiene supplies like disinfectants, non-contact thermometers, and cloth masks to elementary and junior and senior high schools, special needs schools, upper secondary specialized training schools, etc.

MEXT is supporting efforts by school establishers to reduce the risk of infection on special needs schools' school buses (reducing the number of children riding a bus at one time, etc.)

（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

MEXT will provide special additional payments to low-income households to cover communications expenses in order to support home learning through subsidies for students requiring public assistance in compulsory education, scholarships for special needs education, and High School Supplemental Scholarship Fund.

MEXT's "Children's Learning Support Website" provides convenient information on educational videos and other

materials. The Open University of Japan broadcasts programs nationwide for elementary and junior and senior high school students that are useful for home study through its BS broadcasts.

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Support at higher education level

Project for upgrading educational environment of overseas Japanese schoolsTo ensure the learning of students at Japanese schools overseas, MEXT will support providing one computer for each student and teacher as well as projects for testing and validating the educational systems using ICT.

（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

（Accelerated preparation of environment for distance learning）In continuation with the 1st supplementary budget, MEXT will support the preparation of the necessary environment for all universities, colleges of technology, and professional training colleges to conduct distance learning classes. This support will advance the building of environment enabling all of the above-mentioned institutions that have their own implementation needs to provide distance education to their students.

To lighten the communications costs for students, MEXT will support the provision of rental mobile routers, utilizing the above-mentioned supplementary budget, and the provision of special support measures such as easing of volume capacity limits for cellular phones provided by all telecommunications companies. For the preparation and implementation of distance learning at universities, etc., MEXT will collect and disseminate information on specific successful cases, for example, by collaborating with the "Cyber Symposium for Sharing Information on Distance Learning at Universities from April," held by the National Institute of Informatics (NII).https://www.nii.ac.jp/event/other/decs/

（Ensuring the quality of learning in distance learning）In addition to clarifying the conditions for ensuring the quality of distance learning, MEXT will disseminate examples of specific initiatives for the flexible handling of actual training, such as alternative training through distance classes, the postponement of the training period, and the staggering of classes after instruction in anti-coronavirus measures.

【Primary and secondary education】 Educational activities for ensuring learningThe following are ideas for necessary revision of curricula formulated at the beginning of academic year. －Recover learning at school by setting special attendance days and/or staggered attendance schedules, redesigning the timetable, reviewing the length of long

vacations, having school on Saturdays , as well as prioritizing school events and shortening their preparation time, etc. －Special measures can be taken when it is still difficult to complete the curricula scheduled even if the measures above are taken:(1)Moving some learning content from this year to 1 or 2 years into the future(2)Prioritizing of learning activities at school lessons

MEXT will prepare learning materials for the review of learning content (6th grade of elementary school, 3rd year of junior high school).In regards to the range of questions and question contents and methodology for high school entrance exams, MEXT will request prefectural boards of education and other implementers of the examinations to take special consideration and devise appropriate measures as needed for the entrance examinations in fiscal 2021 based on the learning situation in the region.

Support to university hospitals

Support to university hospitals, research labsIn addition to supporting the strengthening of university hospital functions in preparation for a second and third wave of

COVID-19, MEXT will provide support so that university hospitals do not suffer from a shortage of funds due to decreased revenues from dealing with COVID-19.

MEXT will also further strengthen research bases developing countermeasures against the novel coronavirus and provide support to research labs and other sites impacted by the self-constraints on their research activities.

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（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

In preparation for the second and third wave of COVID-19, MEXT will work to provide necessary medical equipment and ensure the safety and security of health care professionals so that they can devote themselves to medical treatment in order to enable university hospitals to fully carry out their functions (through support by emergency comprehensive support grants for COVID-19 [MHLW]).

In order to prevent university hospitals from suffering a shortage of funds due to decreased revenues, MEXT will provide advance payments of the management expenses grants to national universities, establish an interest subsidy system for short-term loans to national universities with hospitals, and provide interest-free financing (interest subsidies) to private universities. In addition, based on their income and expenditures, MEXT will consider support measures so that university hospitals will not be impeded in their provision of medical care and conducting of research and education activities.

Support to research labs, etc.

In regards to the competitive research funding system, MEXT will promote the flexible handling depending on the situation concerning the various funding procedures, including the extension of submission deadlines for applications, reports, etc. MEXT will centrally compile relevant information, including responses by the funding agencies, and post the information on its website. https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shinkou/torikumi/mext_00638.html

Deadlines for the submission of documents (grant applications, performance reports, etc.) required for the procedures for the KAKENHI grants and deadlines for the repayment of carry-forward funds to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science have been extended.

The deadlines for the submission of applications documents for the Promotion of Joint International Research Fund (Fostering Joint International Research [B]) and the Grant-in Aid for Research Activity Start-up have been extended. FAQs about KAKENHI procedures for the time being have been compiled and are posted on the JSPS website. https://www.jsps.go.jp/j-grantsinaid/data/faq.pdf

（Responses in the competitive research funding system with the spread of COVID-19）

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（Other initiatives）MEXT will promote the publicizing of materials for children on the research activities at universities and research institutes and disseminate information on research trends addressing the novel coronavirus.

Guidelines for conducting research activities while preventing the spread of COVID-19

Remote observation

（Support for resuming and continuing of R&D activities）MEXT will support the improvement of research facilities to enable automation or remote use so that doctoral students and other researchers can promptly resume and continue their research activities. Specifically, MEXT will support the introduction of equipment for the automation or remote use of shared research equipment in high demand by researchers, maintaining and enhancing research activities while protecting students and staff from the threat of COVID-19.

Even as researchers are constrained from going to their laboratories, etc., MEXT will endeavor to steadily maintain and provide bioresources that are important for Japan to develop strategically by supporting the maintenance of environments for bioresources through remote monitoring and automation.

Through its Nanotechnology Platform, MEXT supports "technical surrogacy," whereby technical staff acting as surrogates for researchers who cannot go to the implementing research laboratories conduct trial procedures and measurements.

MEXT is supporting the continuation and resumption of research activities by disseminating its "Guideline for Conducting Research Activities While Preventing the Spread of COVID-19," which is a compilation of caution points, examples of ideas and so on for conducting research activities while endeavoring to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

（R&D addressing the novel coronavirus）MEXT will promote research by moving up the schedule for the trial use of the supercomputer Fugaku and putting up for temporary offering the computational resources of universities and NIER supercomputers.

MEXT will announce and disseminate information regarding the utilization of facilities, provision of data, etc. to researchers and others at RIKEN and elsewhere for the development of effective treatment drugs.

(Source) Nanotechnology Platform website

（Utilization of universities’ PCR equipment）MEXT will provide support to universities cooperating for testing in order to expand the testing system for COVID-19 by utilizing the PCR equipment universities have.

（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)Support to research labs, etc.

To make sure sports and cultural activities have a clear path to the future, MEXT is supplementing its current support for suchactivities, providing support to athletes, artists, and others, and supporting the holding of sporting and cultural events.

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（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

Support to sports-affiliated persons

STEP.１Support for maintenance ofemployment,continuation of operations

○ Presentation to sports organizations of government’s overall support package to sports bodies, individuals.◆Increase of emergency loans, loan guarantees by Japan Finance Corp., etc.◆Large expansion of special measures for Employment Adjustment Subsidies◆Emergency special small-scale loans, etc

◆ Establishment of new system of subsidies for SMEs, individual proprietors and households facing distressed businessoperations and livelihoods

◆：Efforts by whole govt. ○：Efforts by MEXT, Japan Sports Agency

STEP.２ Support for reopening in safe,secure environments

○ Expenses support for measures (thermometers, disinfectants, etc.) to prevent spread of coronavirus at sports events○ Refurbishment of public sports facilities with installation of ventilating fans, air conditioning, etc.

○ Improvement of air conditioning system to prevent infection and strengthening of counseling system for the top athletes in order to use the Japan High Performance Sport Center safely

STEP.３Support for resurgence of

interest in,enthusiasm for sports

○ Support for advertising/PR expenses to secure stable, continuing fan base for sports events○ Expenses support for holding exchange events, sports events for revitalization of local community/region◆ Holding of fixed-period, public-private campaigns to encourage consumption targeting sports events

and entertainment programs (providing discounts, point coupons to consumers who purchase ticketsfor sports/entertainment events)

○ Publicizing/implementation of plans for creation of exercise/sports opportunities to alleviateproblem of children’s lack of exercise due to cancellation of sports events, closing of schools

Society again realizesthe value of sports

○ Tax revision allowing refund amount for cancelled tickets to be deducted as contribution

○ Financial support for personnel costs (guidance, temperature taking, etc.) to prevent spread of COVID-19 at sports events, venue costs, etc.

○ Creation of new support projects for initiatives for continuing sports-related organizations' activities.

○ Support for holding of regional events as alternatives to national school sports club tournaments, which were cancelled for junior and senior high schools.

◆ Support by reducing or waiving fees for using public sports facilities through the extraordinary grants for regional revitalization.

Support for sports, cultural activities

▶Expansion of loans, loan guarantees through Japan Finance Corp., etc.

▶Expansion of special measures for Employment Adjustment Subsidies

▶Partial subsidies (in collaboration with METI) to event organizers who have had to postpone or cancel performances for the holding from now of live performances, including audience-less performances, and the production and overseas distribution of recorded videos of such performances.

▶Expansion of small-scale loans

Measures related to cancellation fees borne by cultural facilities Support for reopening cultural facilities

▶Support to SMEs, individual proprietors facing distressed business operations (sustained benefits, rent support, etc.)

▶ New benefits for households facing hardships (Benefits for Daily Life Support [tentative title])

Support to active efforts for activities continuation of performers, including free-lancers, technical staff, and others forced to curtail their performances due to the spread of COVID-19.

MEXT will support cultural appreciation classes forced to be suspended with the closure of schools and activities for children to experience cultural activities.

Art caravans hold performances and exhibitions throughout the country by artists, including free-lancers, and cultural/arts organizations, including students and amateurs.

Revision of tax system to allow ticket buyers to waive the right for a ticket refund and declare the refund amount a tax deduction for a contribution

Creating opportunities for children to appreciate and experience art and culture

Actions through provision of loans, subsidies (by entire govt.)

MEXT will request that local governments appropriately manage cultural facilities introducing the designated administrator system that have lost revenues due to cancellations caused by the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

If persons who have purchased admission fees to cancelled cultural or artistic events waive the right for a refund, the refund amount can be considered a deduction for a contribution.

▶Initiatives in cooperation with other ministries, agencies

▶ Providing discounts, point coupons to consumers who purchase tickets for sports/entertainment events held over fixed period (in collaboration with METI).

Self-restraint periodReopening period

Come-back period

※Information will be provided to artists, etc. regarding what specific support systems they can utilize, based on their individual needs.※Govt. will cooperate to base support on special characteristics of needs of artists and a wide range of culture-related businesses.

Support to artists, others involved in cultural activities

Support for activities continuation, skill improvement

Support for introduction of time-stagger system for people visiting cultural facilities as a measure to ease congestion and prevent spread of COVID- 19.

Please check the ACA website for information on liaison

contacts and public offerings.<Liaison contact> <Public offerings> <Tax information>

Fostering opportunities for the supporting of cultural activities nationwide, beginning with the Artistic and Cultural Activities Restoration Fund established by the Japan Arts Council

（※ Underlined measures are included in the FY 2020 2nd supplementary budget.)

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Art Caravans

Actively promoting performance opportunities for school cultural clubs, including the Internet-based holding of the National Culture Festival for Upper Secondary Schools

<Artistic, Cultural Activities Restoration Fund>

Enhancing profitability of cultural/arts organizations (Improvement of appreciationenvironment using advanced technology)

MEXT will make models of better appreciation environment and enhancing profitability by means of support cultural/artistic organizations’ activities such as production and distribution of videos, making educational contents, and so on.(Additional earmarking from 1st supplementary budget.)

Contact numbers for each support measure MEXT telephone number (main): 03-5253-4111

Support to students in hardship situations

Support to students facing financial difficulties

(Overall, other than below) Student Support and Exchange Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 3050）(Support to high school students whose family finances suddenly change) [National, public high schools] the Project Team for Financial Support in Elementary and Secondary Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 3578)[Private high schools] Private Education Institution Aid Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 2547)

Emergency support for students at universities, colleges of technology, and professional training colleges

(National universities) National University Corporation Support Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 3760）(Private universities) Private Education Institution Aid Division, Private Education Institution Department, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 2545)(Public universities) University Promotion Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 3370)(Colleges of technology) Technical Education Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 2501)(Professional training colleges) Lifelong Learning Promotion Division, Education Policy Bureau（Ext: 3280）

Travel support to Japanese students temporarily returning to Japan from study abroad Office for Student Exchange, Student Support and Exchange Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 3360)

Ensuring learning for children

Support at primary, secondary education level

【Emergency bolstering of education systems】(Additional assignment of teachers) Financial Affairs Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2038) (Additional placement of instructors, etc.) Financial Affairs Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 3704)Financial support for school re-openings [COVID-19 countermeasures]) Health Education and Shokuiku Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2976) Financial support for school re-openings [ensuring learning]) School Curriculum Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2364) 【Preparing environment for home study using computer terminals】(Overall, other than below) Media, Information and Foreign Language Education Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2085) (Assistance to cover communications costs to support home study in low-income households) the Project Team for Financial Support in Elementary and Secondary Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 3578) (“Children‘s Learning Support Website” ) Lifelong Learning Promotion Division, Education Policy Bureau (Ext: 2972)【Anti-COVID-19 measures at schools】(Overall, other than below) Health Education and Shokuiku Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2976) (Kindergartens) Early Childhood Education Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2373) (Special needs schools’ school busses) Special Needs Education Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2430) 【Education activities for ensuring learning】(Overall, other than below) Special Curriculum Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 2365) (High school entrance exams) Student Affairs Division, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau (Ext: 3291)

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Support for sports, cultural activities

Support to sports-related persons

Step. 1 Support for maintenance of employment, continuation of operations(New projects supporting efforts for continuation of activities of sports-related organizations)

Sports Organizations Support and Private-Sector Cooperation Division, Japan Sports Agency (Ext: 2045)(Overall govt. support measures for organizations, individuals) Contact numbers of admin offices that will introduce measures of

each respective ministry/agency are posted on those ministries’ websites. https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20200401-mxt_kouhou02-000004520_02.pdf

(Regarding tax revision for waiving ticket refund and deducting refund amount as contribution)[Tickets for sporting events] Sports Organizations Support and Private-Sector Cooperation Division , Japan Sports Agency (ext.2686)[Event participation fee] Sports for Health Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.2688)※Contact numbers for METI, MIC liaison offices regarding “creation of new benefits system” posted on JSA website.

https://www.mext.go.jp/sports/b_menu/sports/mcatetop01/list/detail/jsa_00008.html

Ensuring children’s learning

Support at higher education level (Preparation of environment for distance learning) Technical Education Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 2501) (Ensuring quality of distance learning classes) University Promotion Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 3338)

Project for upgrading educational environment of overseas Japanese schools Educational Reform and International Affairs Division, Education Policy Bureau (Ext: 2442)

Support to university hospitals, research laboratories, etc.Support to university hospitals Medical Education Division, Higher Education Bureau (Ext: 2578)

Support to research labs, etc.

(Responses in the competitive research funding system with the spread of COVID-19) [Competitive research funding system] Office of Research Funding Administration, Promotion Policy Division, Research

Promotion Bureau (Ext: 4014)[Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research] Scientific Research Aid Division, Research Promotion Division (Ext: 4309)

(Support for resumption, continuation of research activities)[Distance operation, automation of research facilities] Research and Development Infrastructure Division, Science and

Technology Policy Bureau (Ext: 4340)[Bioresources] Life Sciences Division, Research Promotion Bureau (Ext: 4006)[Nanotechnology Platform]Materials Science and Nanotechnology Development Division, Research Promotion Bureau (Ext:

4178)(Utilization of universities’ PCR equipment) Scientific Research Institutes Division, Research Promotion Bureau (Ext: 4170)(Research and development related to novel coronavirus)

[Use of supercomputers] Office for the Promotion of Computing Science, Information Division, Research Promotion Bureau (Ext: 4275)[RIKEN] Basic Research Promotion Division, Research Promotion Bureau (Ext: 4246)

(Initiatives other than the above) Policy Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau (Ext: 3907)

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MEXT telephone number (main): 03-5253-4111

MEXT telephone number (main): 03-5253-4111

Support for sports and cultural activities

Support to sports-related persons

Step. 2 Support for reopening in safe, secure environments(Financial support for personnel costs (guidance, temperature taking, etc.) to prevent spread of COVID-19 at sports events, venue costs, etc. )Sports Organizations Support and Private-Sector Cooperation Division, Japan Sports Agency (Ext: 3943)(Support for expenses to prevent spread of COVID-19 at sports events)[Organizers of nationwide leagues, events] Sports Organizations Support and Private-Sector Cooperation Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.3943)[Regional sports commissions] Community Development Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.3931)[Para-sports associations] Sports for Health Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.3490)(Refurbishing of public sports facilities) Community Development Division, Japan Sports Agency (Ext: 3934)(Measures for preventing COVID-19 at the Japan High Performance Sport Center) Competitive Sports Division, Japan Sports Agency (Ext: 2678)

Step. 3 Support for resurgence of interest in, enthusiasm for sports(Support for holding of regional events as alternatives to national school sports club tournaments, which were cancelled for junior and senior high schools) Office for Physical Education, Policy Division, Japan Sports Agency (Ext: 3777)(Support for costs of publicizing sports events)※Same as Step 2 “Support for expenses to prevent spread of COVID-19 at sports events”

(Support for expenses to hold regional revitalization/exchange events) Community Development Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.3931)(Creation of sports events for children) Sports for Health Division, Japan Sports Agency (ext.3939)※ Contact number for “waiving of fees for using public sports facilities through the extraordinary grants for regional revitalization” scheduled to be posted on JSA website.

Support to artists, others involved in cultural activities

(Support for activities continuation, skills improvement, etc.) Arts and Culture Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 2828 or 2831)(Overall, other than below) Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 4463) (Responses to cancellation fees borne by cultural facilities introducing the designated administrator system)

Planning Coordination Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 4833)(Support for reopening of cultural facilities) Planning Coordination Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 3056)(Improvement of viewing environment using advanced technology)

[Museums] Planning Coordination Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 3056) [Arts and cultural organizations] Arts and Culture Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 2084)

(Art Caravans) Arts and Culture Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 2084) (Creating opportunities for children to appreciate and experience art and culture) Arts and Culture Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 2835) (Revision of tax system to allow donation deductions for waiving right to ticket refunds) Cultural Economy and International Affairs Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ext: 4764)

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